Who was your buddy this month? yourivy What books were chosen for you? 'Annie Bot' by Sierra Greer, 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco and 'Doppleganger' by Naomi Klein. Did you manage to read your books? Which ones? All of Annie Bot and about 12% of 'Name of the Rose'. The second one will take me a long time, it's a big book and full of references to various things that I don't know much about like medieval Catholic infighting. If you read more than one, did you enjoy them? What was your favorite? Don't think I can make a comparative review on a whole book against 12% of another!
Would you recommend your chosen book(s)? Annie Bot, about an android created as a sexual companion, was decent - some pacing difficulties, and about as subtle as a brick in it's portrayal of racialised misogyny (Annie Bot is based off her white male owner's ex-wife, who was a Black woman) but the mood was intense and quite hard to take, as Annie lives through some horrific abuse along with being treated like a thing by the humans around her. Or, almost worse, being told that her oner is 'one of the good ones'. I'd rec it, but as a borrow from the library or a cheap ebook rather than a full price purchase.
Did you read anything else this month, outside of your chosen books? Some Star Trek IDW comics (fanservicey but fun), Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (cute gay YA, I'm looking forward to reading more by the author), Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel (imo the weakest of her autobiographical graphic novels), Aboslute Wonder Woman vol 1 by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman (among other artists) which was stunningly good, and The Immortal Hulk Book One (the first ten issues) by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett - also very good horror, really leaning into the nightmare of sharing a body wirh a big green guy.
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Date: 2025-07-01 10:20 pm (UTC)yourivy
What books were chosen for you?
'Annie Bot' by Sierra Greer, 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco and 'Doppleganger' by Naomi Klein.
Did you manage to read your books? Which ones?
All of Annie Bot and about 12% of 'Name of the Rose'. The second one will take me a long time, it's a big book and full of references to various things that I don't know much about like medieval Catholic infighting.
If you read more than one, did you enjoy them? What was your favorite? Don't think I can make a comparative review on a whole book against 12% of another!
Would you recommend your chosen book(s)? Annie Bot, about an android created as a sexual companion, was decent - some pacing difficulties, and about as subtle as a brick in it's portrayal of racialised misogyny (Annie Bot is based off her white male owner's ex-wife, who was a Black woman) but the mood was intense and quite hard to take, as Annie lives through some horrific abuse along with being treated like a thing by the humans around her. Or, almost worse, being told that her oner is 'one of the good ones'. I'd rec it, but as a borrow from the library or a cheap ebook rather than a full price purchase.
Did you read anything else this month, outside of your chosen books? Some Star Trek IDW comics (fanservicey but fun), Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (cute gay YA, I'm looking forward to reading more by the author), Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel (imo the weakest of her autobiographical graphic novels), Aboslute Wonder Woman vol 1 by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman (among other artists) which was stunningly good, and The Immortal Hulk Book One (the first ten issues) by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett - also very good horror, really leaning into the nightmare of sharing a body wirh a big green guy.